Question

Muriel gets overtime pay when she works more than 40 hours. How many hours of overtime pay did she earn last week?
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Answer 1

Monday: 8 1/2 hours
Tuesday: 9 1/2 hours
Wednesday: 8 hours
Thursday: 10 hours
Friday: 9 1/2 hours

Answer 2

how much is her overtime pay?

Answer 3

i didnt know if i had to add them all together because 1 hour is 60 minutes and it got confusing to me

Answer 4

i got 44 minutes without the 1/2

Answer 5

so would i take the 1/2 and add them wouldnt one be 30 minutes

Answer 6

for the 1/2

Answer 7

but the question has hours so it doesn't need to be converted to minutes... just add what you have there... and you should actually get 45.5 hours...

Answer 8

so would i take that and then subtract it to 40

Answer 9

yes, you'd take 45.5-40.

Answer 10

so it would be .5 hours which is how much

Answer 11

it would be 5 1/2 hours actually...

Answer 12

so 30 mintues

Answer 13

why do you need minutes?

Answer 14

how do you get that

Answer 15

45.5-40=5.5 which is 5 1/2...

Answer 16

well when i take 45.5-40 and get .5 how would it be 5 1/2 hours

Answer 17

oh

Answer 18

it's okay :) haha we all make mistakes. But why do you need minutes?

Answer 19

i dont i was confused thank you for the help

Answer 20

no problem